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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1897
Page
6
A poetic meditation by David Banks Sickels from the New York Sun reflects on mortality and the afterlife. The speaker asserts that beauty and achievement should not fade without recompense, and that lasting guidance and heavenly sight await beyond death.
Dorothy Meredith is guiding through a storm when a mysterious miner helps her with a sprained wrist and offers shelter. As they ride toward a shaft-house, recognition and past connections surface, hinting at a shared history tied to a Colorado world and a nearby world’s fair.
A young man helps Dorothy onto a rough trail to a precarious lookout above a lava flow. They force open a chained door to a tunnel side hut, entering a crude smithy with a forge and drills. They remark on the humble shelter and the biting cold of the climate as they settle in.
A man recounts selling a cow for 20 dollars to pay debts. His wife urged the sale for money, then spent the funds on dresses and a house. He finally settled by using the cow money to complete furnishings, calling the deal a bargain though the cow cost him about 20 thousand dollars.
The article extols flower and herb baths to harden muscles of the neck, shoulders, arms, and limbs. It details recipes using rose leaves violets hay etc with boiling infusion methods for rose, hay, oats, shave grass and pine sprigs. It notes internal shave grass tea cleanses the stomach and external baths aid hair and skin and blood vessels.
The conversation drags as she notes his intellectual limits and unpopularity. He stares, replies with a pale flash, while she offers a gentle, pitying remark about nature abhorring a vacuum. A thick silence follows, shaping years of distance between them.
A humorous exchange shows a furniture dealer praising a handsome writing desk with 160 drawers while a skeptical wife questions the practicality. The gag ends with a curt retort from a passerby and a quip about misplacing items. The snippet reflects light social humor in a late 19th or early 20th century column.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt advises women on saving costs by making toilet waters at home. It describes a simple apparatus with a spirit lamp, a covered tin vessel, a rubber tube to a jar, and a method to gently heat to vaporize and condense the flower bouquet into liquid, stressing tight seals to avoid loss of scent.
A new English dyeing method colors cloth differently on each side. After standard dyeing, a printing roller with opposing diagonal engravings applies a second color, limited to half the cloth, using a thickened color bath. The fabric then finishes as usual.
A dialogue references Dinsmore and Trotter with remarks on height and fairness. Cawker notes Trotter is over six feet tall, deemed above average. A clipping also mentions Miss Browning and Browning Beans, with Auntie warning about dying young in a playful exchange.
A fashion note introduces the Yvette neck ruching designed to be worn with hair low at the neck. It describes using a yard and a half of ribbon and silk, circular silk ruffles on the ribbon, and tying in front for a flattering neckline. The piece notes adjustments for high hairstyles and explains how the trim visually elongates the chin.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes that actinic rays in sunlight cause tan or sunburn, not heat. Exposure to blue violet rays affects skin and photographic plates, while red glass blocks blue light. A red fabric protects best against sunburn and blue veils are undesirable.
Mrs Rover provides a baking method for pop overs using two eggs milk and flour mixed without separation Then bake in greased gem-pans in a hot oven for about 45 minutes yielding sixfold rise Substituting sifted whole wheat flour is suggested Iron gem-pans are preferred and the recipe notes serving ideas and pudding sauce accompaniment credited to Mrs S T Rover via Ladies Home Journal
The passage details a sachet bag recipe for moth deterrence and human fragrance. It calls for a blend of one ounce each cloves nutmeg cinnamon carraway seeds mace and tonka beans ground together with six ounces orms root also powdered. Readily crushed ingredients and muslin bags with ribbon closures are recommended for storage and scent.
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